Turn Your Teaching Farm Into a Living Curriculum
Document everything for students, generate grant-ready reports in one click, and preserve institutional knowledge even as staff and cohorts rotate every semester.
The Teaching Farm Balancing Act
You're running a productive farm and an educational program simultaneously. Both demand documentation, coordination, and accountability — usually from the same person, with the same limited hours.
Curriculum Integration
Farm tasks need to align with what students are learning each week — and that changes every semester.
Rotating Staff & Students
Interns and volunteers cycle in and out. Institutional knowledge walks out the door with them.
Documentation Burden
Grant reporting requires detailed records of every activity, participant, and outcome — usually retroactively.
Class Scheduling Conflicts
Production timelines must flex around class visits, lab days, and academic calendars.
Task Assignment Complexity
Matching tasks to skill levels and learning goals while keeping the farm productive is a constant balancing act.
Visual Documentation
Newsletters, grant reports, and educational materials all need photo records nobody has time to organize.
Curriculum-Connected Task Management
When staff rotate every semester, institutional knowledge walks out the door with them. The person who knew why that bed gets irrigated differently, who was managing the cover crop rotation, who built the pest-scouting schedule — gone.
Solara captures the "why" behind every task, assigns them to student teams with clear learning objectives, and keeps a permanent record that survives every cohort change. New students pick up exactly where the last group left off.
- Assign tasks to student teams with notes and learning goals
- Kanban-style board: This Week → In Progress → Done
- Crop and bed context on every task card
- All task history preserved — searchable by semester
Task Board — Fall 2025
Week 6Season Report Export
Grant-ReadyGrant-Ready Farm Reports
Grant reporting requires data you don't have — because nothing was tracked consistently. Hours before the deadline, you're reconstructing harvest counts from memory and guessing participation numbers. It's exhausting, and it's avoidable.
Solara captures every planting, harvest, student, and task as you work. At grant time, click Export. The PDF and CSV have everything your funder needs: participants, hours, yields, dates, bed-level detail.
- One-click Season Report in PDF and CSV format
- Participant tracking: who did what, how many hours
- Harvest totals by crop, bed, and date range
- Compatible with USDA, NRCS, and foundation grant templates
From Educators Who Use It Every Day
University programs, community gardens, and high school ag departments trust Solara.
“Every semester we have new student workers who need to learn the system. Solara gives them a visual, intuitive tool they pick up in an hour.”
“Our grant required detailed records of every harvest and who participated. Solara's export feature saved us probably 40 hours of manual data entry at grant time.”
“My students actually compete over who has the best-performing bed. The data makes farming a game. Engagement is through the roof.”
Special Pricing for Educational Programs
Verified 501(c)(3) nonprofits and accredited educational institutions receive a 50% discount on any Solara plan. We believe great farm management tools should be accessible to programs that build the next generation of growers.
- Applies to all plan tiers
- Reviewed and approved within 48 hours
- Renewal discount maintained year-over-year
Up to 20 beds, full succession & harvest tracking
Unlimited beds, team accounts, grant reports, full export
Common Questions
Everything teaching farms and educational programs ask before starting.